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enThree Questions for Computing Pioneer Carver Meadhttp://www.technologyreview.com/news/521501/three-questions-for-computing-pioneer-carver-mead/
<p>Carver Mead christened Moore’s Law and helped make it come true. Now he says engineers should experiment with quantum mechanics to advance computing.</p><p>Computer scientist Carver Mead gave Moore’s Law its name in around 1970 and played a crucial role in making sure it’s held true in the decades since. He pioneered an approach to designing complex silicon chips, called very large scale integration (VLSI), that’s still influential today. Mead was responsible for a string of firsts in the semiconductor industry, and as a professor at the California Institute of Technology he taught many of Silicon Valley’s most famous technologists. In the 1980s, frustration with the limitations of standard computers led him to begin building chips modeled on mammalian brains—creating a field known as neuromorphic computing, which is now gaining new momentum. Now 79, Mead retains an office at Caltech, where he told <em>MIT Technology Review</em> why computer engineers should be investigating new forms of computing.</p>Wed, 13 Nov 2013 22:10:00 +0000juniper.friedman521501 at http://www.technologyreview.comSoftware Detects Motion that the Human Eye Can't Seehttp://www.technologyreview.com/news/428498/software-detects-motion-that-the-human-eye-cant-see/
<p>The video technique could lead to remote diagnostic methods, like the ability to detect the heart rate of someone on a screen.</p><p>A new set of software algorithms can amplify aspects of a video and reveal what is normally undetectable to human eyesight, making it possible to, for example, measure someone’s pulse by shooting a video of him and capturing the way blood is flowing across his face. </p>Tue, 24 Jul 2012 04:00:00 +0000digitalservices428498 at http://www.technologyreview.comWhat Does 'P vs. NP' Mean for the Rest of Us?http://www.technologyreview.com/news/420290/what-does-p-vs-np-mean-for-the-rest-of-us/
<p>A proposed “proof” is probably a bust–but even failed attempts can advance computer science.</p><p>Programmers and computer scientists have been buzzing for the past week about the latest attempt to solve one of the most vexing questions in computer science: the so-called “P versus NP problem.”</p>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0000digitalservices420290 at http://www.technologyreview.comRobots Make Computer Science Fun Againhttp://www.technologyreview.com/view/419894/robots-make-computer-science-fun-again/
<p>Students who program robots are more likely to stick with their computer science curriculum.</p>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:00:00 +0000digitalservices419894 at http://www.technologyreview.comPhony Twitter Profiles Aim to Outwit Spammershttp://www.technologyreview.com/news/419770/phony-twitter-profiles-aim-to-outwit-spammers/
<p>Approach could help software learn how to identify fake accounts with less honorable intentions.</p><p>It’s not unusual to have user profiles on multiple social networks, or even separate accounts on sites like Twitter–one for work and one for play. But <a href="http://students.cse.tamu.edu/kyumin/" target="_blank">Kyumin Lee</a> at Texas A&amp;M University has 60 Twitter accounts, and not because he’s popular.</p>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0000digitalservices419770 at http://www.technologyreview.comQ & A: Mike Lynchhttp://www.technologyreview.com/qa/416794/q-a-mike-lynch/
<p>The cofounder and CEO of Autonomy explains why Nicole Kidman is not a cosmic ball of gas.</p><p>Michael Lynch, the cofounder and chief executive of Autonomy, built Britain’s largest software company by solving a hard problem in computer science: how do you find something obscure within unstructured data–that is, within information not organized into fields that are recognized by databases (whether text, audio, or video), which constitutes most of what has ever been digitally recorded? Autonomy’s technology (which is licensed by diverse organizations) supplements traditional search methods with pattern recognition techniques derived from Bayesian inference, an abstruse form of statistical analysis. He spoke with <em>TR</em>’s editor in chief, Jason Pontin.</p>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0000digitalservices416794 at http://www.technologyreview.comDesigning Structures Made of Nanomaterialshttp://www.technologyreview.com/news/413925/designing-structures-made-of-nanomaterials/
<p>Microsoft researchers hope to simplify algorithms for self-assembling materials.</p><p>Making complex structures out of nanoparticles or polymers, be they for photonic computing or solar cells, typically involves a lot of expensive and time-consuming trial and error in the lab. Theorists hope to simplify the process by developing computer models that will generate recipes that always come out right, but so far, the ones that they’ve made have been too complex to realize in the lab. Now, in the hope of making these algorithms useful to chemists, computer scientists at Microsoft have simplified a model that creates recipes for self-assembling materials.</p>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:00:00 +0000digitalservices413925 at http://www.technologyreview.com